Back in the 80s, when 90% of software development consisted of using a database and the tooling provided by the database supplier, and creating a front end to e

Back in the 80s, when 90% of software development consisted of using a database and the tooling provided by the database supplier, and creating a front end to enter/edit/view the database contents, the results were called "applications". In the 2020s, when 90% of software development consists of using a database, tooling supplied by various open source projects and some choice of web front- and backends to create a front end to enter/edit/view the database contents, the results are called "apps". plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose